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Study: Twitter Sentiment Mirrored Facebook’s Stock Price Today

datasift_suitcaseFacebook's IPO was obviously the single most discussed topic on Twitter today. The good folks over at social media data platform DataSift monitored what Twitter users were saying about the IPO throughout the day and came up with some interesting conclusions....

The disruption in media and real-time politics at paidContent 2012

As part of paidContent 2012: At The Crossroads on May 23 in New York, I'll be talking with venture capitalist Fred Wilson about the future of media and with Josh Marshall of Talking Points Memo and Vivian Schiller of NBC News about real-time politics.

Twitter Ups the Privacy Ante Ahead of Facebook’s IPO

Twitter fired another salvo in the privacy wars, announcing that it will allow users to block it from recording their wanderings around the web. Take that, Facebook! Twi......

Twitter Wants An Interest Graph: Now Tracking Your Browsing To Make Follow Suggestions

Screen shot 2012-05-17 at 1.28.01 PMTwitter does a lot of things right, but it still hasn't solved the problem of turning its noise into signal. After joining Twitter, it can take a lot of following and unfollowing scores of accounts before you've...

Twitter Now Honors Mozilla’s Do Not Track Feature

twitter logoMozilla's Do Not Track feature, which allows users to tell websites that they would like to opt-out of being tracked by third parties, is starting to gain some traction among both users and publishers. According to new data shared by...

How to Hide Your Tweets from Google [Privacy]

Provided you occasionally Google yourself you're probably well aware that your Twitter account is placed pretty high on Google's search rankings. Because of that it's usually best to make sure you're no...

Twitter and Reddit as crowdsourced fact-checking engines

New research about how news is verified through Twitter and a crowdsourced debunking of some fake Wikipedia entries reinforce the point that social networks and online communities can be powerful tools for the real-time verification of events, something that used to take place behind closed doors.

Twitter Is Now Sending You Weekly Email Digests; Here’s How to Turn Them Off [Twitter]

Twitter just added a new feature that sends you a weekly email with the most popular tweets and links from people you follow. If you'd rather not get more spam in your inbox, here's how to nip this in t...

Am I Oversharing? [Social Networks]

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Top 10 Ways to Supercharge Your Favorite Webapps and Services [Lifehacker Top 10]

We all have webapps and services that we love, but that doesn't make them perfect. If you want to do more with Gmail, remove annoying parts of Facebook, connect two webapps you love, automate tedious a...